PaaS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 291 133
Rank change year-on-year -19 -158 +53
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 154 344 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 1.02% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 2.36% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 104 295 570
10th Percentile £33,439 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £53,750 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.57%
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,625 £83,484
90th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £96,375
UK median annual salary £71,991 £70,037 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% +0.05% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,550 14,579 19,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.54% 43.25% 47.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,463 11,912 14,516
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,167
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,625 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

PaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PaaS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PaaS.

PaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PaaS over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

PaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.60%) Confluence
5 3 (1.95%) IIS
5 3 (1.95%) NetWeaver
5 3 (1.95%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.60%) Trello
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (85.71%) Azure
2 97 (62.99%) SaaS
3 81 (52.60%) IaaS
4 65 (42.21%) AWS
5 35 (22.73%) Power Platform
6 34 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (18.83%) GCP
8 26 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (16.88%) Power Automate
9 25 (16.23%) Entra ID
10 20 (12.99%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (12.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (12.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (12.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (10.39%) Azure AI
13 12 (7.79%) OCI
13 12 (7.79%) PowerApps
14 11 (7.14%) GitHub
15 9 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.83%) DNS
2 23 (14.94%) Firewall
3 19 (12.34%) VPN
4 17 (11.04%) WAN
5 16 (10.39%) SD-WAN
6 9 (5.84%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.60%) DHCP
8 3 (1.95%) Network Security
9 2 (1.30%) SAN
9 2 (1.30%) VoIP
10 1 (0.65%) Extranet
10 1 (0.65%) Internet
10 1 (0.65%) LAN
10 1 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) Power BI
2 17 (11.04%) MySQL
3 16 (10.39%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (5.84%) Star Schema
6 5 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.25%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (2.60%) Power Query
8 3 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.95%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (1.95%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.30%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (23.38%) Git
2 19 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.60%) JIRA
5 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.95%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.30%) GitLab
7 2 (1.30%) Gradle
7 2 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 48 (31.17%) Finance
2 41 (26.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Law
4 19 (12.34%) Telecoms
5 18 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (9.09%) Banking
7 11 (7.14%) Marketing
8 8 (5.19%) Welsh Language
9 5 (3.25%) General Ledger
9 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.95%) Advertising
10 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Local Government
11 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (24.03%) Architect
2 33 (21.43%) Senior
3 30 (19.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (16.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 21 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
6 17 (11.04%) Developer
7 13 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Server Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (7.14%) Lead
10 10 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Business Developer
11 9 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (5.84%) ETL Developer
11 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Power BI Developer
11 9 (5.84%) SQL BI Developer
11 9 (5.84%) SQL Developer
12 8 (5.19%) IT Support
12 8 (5.19%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.04%) Node.js
2 11 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.55%) Azure Blueprints
4 7 (4.55%) JSON
5 6 (3.90%) .NET
5 6 (3.90%) React
5 6 (3.90%) React Native
6 5 (3.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (3.25%) REST
6 5 (3.25%) SOAP
6 5 (3.25%) Web Services
7 2 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.30%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.30%) Kafka
7 2 (1.30%) RESTful
7 2 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.30%) XML
8 1 (0.65%) HTML
8 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.03%) Management Information System
2 21 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 19 (12.34%) Data Centre
4 16 (10.39%) NHS
5 10 (6.49%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.84%) IoT
7 8 (5.19%) Driving Licence
7 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.90%) DataPower
8 6 (3.90%) Social Media
9 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (3.25%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.60%) Clustering
10 4 (2.60%) Replication
11 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.92%) Windows
2 33 (21.43%) Linux
3 25 (16.23%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.90%) Android
4 6 (3.90%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.90%) Unix
5 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.95%) AIX
6 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.30%) SUSE
7 2 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.40%) DevOps
2 60 (38.96%) CI/CD
3 50 (32.47%) Analytics
4 48 (31.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (30.52%) Agile
6 38 (24.68%) ITIL
7 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (19.48%) Roadmaps
9 28 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 28 (18.18%) Migration
9 28 (18.18%) Project Management
10 26 (16.88%) Incident Management
11 25 (16.23%) API Management
11 25 (16.23%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (16.23%) High Availability
11 25 (16.23%) Performance Monitoring
11 25 (16.23%) Service Management
12 22 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (14.29%) ETL
13 21 (13.64%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.97%) PowerShell
1 40 (25.97%) SQL
2 27 (17.53%) Python
3 22 (14.29%) Bicep
4 13 (8.44%) Java
5 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.60%) C#
7 3 (1.95%) Bash
7 3 (1.95%) C
8 1 (0.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (24.68%) Azure Certification
2 31 (20.13%) Degree
3 25 (16.23%) DBS Check
4 24 (15.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
6 17 (11.04%) MCSE
7 16 (10.39%) MCSA
8 11 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (7.14%) SC Cleared
9 8 (5.19%) CCNA
9 8 (5.19%) CCNP
9 8 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (5.19%) MCP
10 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.95%) CISSP
12 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.30%) CEH
12 2 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.65%) CISM
13 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.84%) NCSC
3 8 (5.19%) NIST
3 8 (5.19%) SLA
4 6 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.25%) GDPR
6 4 (2.60%) QA
7 3 (1.95%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (12.34%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.69%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (7.14%) Docker
4 10 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (22.73%) Terraform
2 33 (21.43%) Ansible
3 26 (16.88%) Kubernetes
4 16 (10.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.25%) SCCM
6 3 (1.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.30%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.30%) SCOM
8 1 (0.65%) CASB
8 1 (0.65%) Grafana
8 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.64%) Databricks
3 20 (12.99%) Oracle
4 16 (10.39%) Meraki
5 13 (8.44%) VMware
6 9 (5.84%) IBM
7 7 (4.55%) Google
8 6 (3.90%) Apple
9 5 (3.25%) Cisco
10 4 (2.60%) EMC
10 4 (2.60%) SAP
10 4 (2.60%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.95%) Citrix
12 2 (1.30%) Ab Initio
12 2 (1.30%) arcserve
12 2 (1.30%) Aruba
12 2 (1.30%) Avaya
12 2 (1.30%) Linksys
13 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.65%) Workday